New Delhi, July 28 - Renowned mountaineer Captain M.S. Kohli will perhaps never want to remember Monday's deluge that almost flooded the city. The man who led India's Everest expedition in 1965 lost in the flood 200 memorable photographs he had collected for the last 20 years.

'I had all those memories stored in the form of 500 photographs that I put up in my guest house in south Delhi called the Legend Inn. It is sometimes also called the Little Himalaya. Every room in the guest house is named after a peak and has photographs of my mountaineering experiences,' Kohli told IANS.

'However, last evening after the heavy showers the basement of my guest house got flooded and destroyed 200 of those photographs. It's the biggest loss of my life,' said the chairman of the Himalayan Environment Trust, which he founded after consultation with famous mountaineer Edmund Hillary.